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Allan H. Harvey, William T. Parry, James C. Bellows, John S. Gallagher, Richard D. Harwood
This is an update of the standard ASME "Steam Tables" book, giving tables and charts of thermodynamic and transport properties for water and steam, along with...
Ultracold atoms in optical lattices can realize nearly perfect analogs to condensed matter model systems without the complexity present in materials. In this...
Sergio Cova, Massimo Ghioni, Mark A. Itzler, Joshua Bienfang, Alessandro Restelli
There is nowadays a widespread and growing interest in low-level light detection and imaging. This interest is driven by the need for high sensitivity in...
Environmental metabolomics is a rapidly growing area of research, and over the last decade the focus has been on organism responses to various types of...
This chapter focuses on two atomic force microscopy (AFM) methods for nanomechanical characterization: force modulation microscopy (FMM) and contact resonance...
Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), also known as photomultipliers, are remarkable devices. While a PMT was the rst device to detect light at the single photon level...
Joshua C. Bienfang, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall, Sergey V. Polyakov
In the beginning there was light. And it was good. Not long thereafter people began to look for a comprehensive understanding of its nature. While the...
Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall, Franco N. Wong, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Ian Walmsley, Hendrik B. Coldenstrodt-Ronge
We present an overview of e orts to improve photon-counting detection systems through the use of hybrid detection techniques such as spatial- and time...
Numerous approaches have been applied for measuring the porosity of materials. The most common techniques are based on gas sorption, liquid intrusion...
Short tandem repeats (STRs) are regions of tandemly repeated DNA segments found throughout the human genome that vary in length (through insertion, deletion, or...
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Josef Matyas, Ohji Tatsuki , Xingbo Liu, Mariappan Paranthaman, Ram Devanathan, Kevin Fox
The Materials Science and Technology 2012 Conference and Exhibition (MS&T12) was held October 7-11, 2012, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of the major themes...
Michael T. Postek, Robert J. Moon, Alan Rudie, Michael Bilodeau
Production and Applications of Cellulosic Nanomaterials was intended to help organize and highlight the wide range of research being conducted worldwide on...
Carbon nanotubes are an important class of nanoparticles with a broad range of potential applications such as in polymer nanocomposites, flame resistant...
Kristine A. Bertness, Mark W. Raynor, Kevin C. Cossel, Florian B. Adler, Jun Ye
The analysis of water vapor impurity is important in a number of specialty gas applications. However the main driver for the development and advancement of...
Chapter 1 in "Introduction to Combinatorial Testing" from CRC Press. Background material for Introduction to Combinatorial Testing from NIST SP 800-142 and...
Preface and Appendices A and B in "Introduction to Combinatorial Testing" from CRC Press. Background material for Introduction to Combinatorial Testing from...
Chapter 14 in "Introduction to Combinatorial Testing" from CRC Press. Background material for Introduction to Combinatorial Testing from NIST SP 800-142 and...
Chapter 7 in "Introduction to Combinatorial Testing" from CRC Press. Background material for Introduction to Combinatorial Testing from NIST SP 800-142 and...
Chapter 2 in "Introduction to Combinatorial Testing" from CRC Press. Background material for Introduction to Combinatorial Testing from NIST SP 800-142 and...
Jeffrey W. Gilman, Mauro Zammarano, Iulia A. Sacui, Jeremiah Woodcock
Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer on Earth, found in plants (cotton, hemp, wood), marine animals (Tunicate), algae (Valonia) bacteria (Acetobacter...
The design of systems for operation at cryogenic temperatures requires the use of material properties at these low temperatures. The properties at cryogenic...
Cellulose nanocrystals are one group of nanoparticles that have high potential economic value but, also present many basic research and manufacturing challenges...
Network synchronization or timing, as it is sometimes called, has always been an important subject since the advent of digital switching and transmission based...
Nikolai B. Zhitenev, Behrang H. Hamadani, Paul M. Haney
Photogenerated charge transport in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is strongly dependent on the active layer nanomorphology. Local probes have been...
In this chapter, we discuss miniaturized atomic magnetometers, and the technology and applications relevant to this somewhat unusual direction in magnetometer...
This review begins with an introduction to NMR gyroscopes (NMRGs), followed by a discussion of the frequency shifts and relaxation mechanisms that determine and...
Enzyme-catalyzed polymerization provides a green alter-native to synthesize biodegradable polyesters over conventional heavy metal catalysts. Heterogeneous...